Research Catalog

Title

The Pooh perplex : a freshman casebook / by Frederick Crews.

Author

Crews, Frederick C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Description

xiv, 150 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with ridiculous footnotes, tongue-in-cheek "questions and study projects," and hilarious biographical notes on the contributors. This edition contains a new preface by the author that compares literary theory then and now and identifies some of the real-life critics who were spoofed in certain chapters.

Subject

• Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 > Winnie-the-Pooh > Humor
• Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 > Study guides > Humor
• Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) > Humor
• 1900-1999
• Children > History > Great Britain > 20th century > Humor
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism > Humor
• Teddy bears in literature > Humor
• Criticism > Humor

Genre/Form

• examination study guides.
• humor.
• Study guides
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Humor
• Guides de l'étudiant.
• Humour.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Note to the 2003 edition -- Preface -- Paradoxical persona : the hierarchy of heroism in Winnie-the-Pooh / Harvey C. Window -- A bourgeois writer's proletarian fables / Martin Tempralis -- The theory and practice of bardic verse : notations on the hums of Pooh / P.R. Honeycomb -- Poisoned paradise : the underside of Pooh / Myron Masterson -- O felix culpa? : the sacramental meaning of Winnie-the-Pooh / C.J.L. Culpepper -- Winnie and the cultural stream / Murphey A. Sweat -- A la recherche du Pooh perdu / Woodbine Meadowlark -- A complete analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh / Duns C. Penwiper -- Another book to cross off your list / Simon Lacerous -- The style of Pooh : sources, analogues, and influences / Benjamin Thumb -- A.A. Milne's honey-balloon-pit-gun-tail-bathtub complex / Karl Anschauung -- Prolegomena to any future study of Winnie-the-Pooh / Smedley Force.

ISBN

0226120589 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002032359

OCLC

50516490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library